We challenge ethics abuses and abuses of office in the executive branch and Congress. We file complaints, request investigations, develop and advocate legislation and make public cases to hold public officials accountable for improper actions.
- We filed complaints at the Justice Department against former Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for his recusal from the Russia investigation. The complaints helped lead to his recusal and to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
- We filed five complaints at the Justice Department against Attorney General Barr for his repeated biased actions to support President Trump. The complaints also challenged Barr’s repeated violations of Justice Department norms, standards and rules designed to carry out the Department’s mission of providing impartial justice for all Americans.
- We filed a complaint against Rep. Devin Nunes, then chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for violating House ethics rules.
- We advocated legislation to strengthen the ethics laws for the executive branch and Congress and to strengthen the enforcement of ethics and campaign finance laws.
The GOP Is Abandoning The Rule Of Law
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Ethics & Accountability gerrymandering House Republicans TrumpWatchby Jackie HowellD21 Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee Members Who Voted To Advance Supreme Court Code Of Ethics Measure; Urges Full Senate To Pass Legislation
|Press Releases |Ethics & Accountability Supreme Courtby Jackie HowellOp-Ed: Jim Jordan Showed On His First Day How Unfit He Is To Lead The House Judiciary Committee
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Congress Election Deniers Ethics & Accountability Jim Jordanby Jackie HowellPence Document Case Shows It’s Time for New Protocols
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ethics & Accountability Mar-a-Lago Documentsby Jackie Howell39 GOP Freshmen Vote To Gut A House Ethics Office & Jim Jordan Plans His Hypocritical Attacks
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Congress Ethics & Accountability Jim Jordan Republican Houseby Jackie HowellGeorge Santos’s Long Trail Of Lies, Deceptions, And Distortions
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Congress Ethics & Accountability George Santosby Jackie HowellD21 Urges House Ethics Committee To Expeditiously Conduct Investigation Of Rep. George Santos
|Press Releases |Congress Ethics & Accountability George Santosby Jackie HowellD21 President Fred Wertheimer On House GOP Effort To Gut Office Of Congressional Ethics
|Press Releases |Congress Ethics & Accountabilityby Jackie HowellEisen/Wertheimer In Just Security: Was DeSantis Shipping Migrants To Martha’s Vineyard A Crime?
|Op Eds, Press Releases |DeSantis Ethics & Accountability Migrantsby Jackie HowellD21, Eisen, Common Cause: Supreme Court Must Adopt Code Of Conduct And Strengthen Recusal Procedures
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Conflicts of Interest Ethics & Accountability Jan. 6 Supreme Courtby Jackie HowellJustice Clarence Thomas – A Political Partisan In A Justice’s Robe
|Fred Wertheimer’s Weekly Note |Ethics & Accountability Supreme Courtby Jackie HowellDemocracy 21 Joins With CREW And 18 Other National Groups To Urge Congress To Pass Legislation Prohibiting Members From Owning Stocks, Bonds
|Press Releases |Conflicts of Interest Congress Ethics & Accountabilityby Jackie HowellDemocracy 21 Urges Support For The Protecting Our Democracy Act
|Press Releases |Democracy Reforms Ethics & Accountabilityby Jackie HowellMcCarthy’s Threat To Telecoms Warrants Immediate Ethics Committee Inquiry, Former Obama Ethics Czar Norm Eisen And D21 President Fred Wertheimer Write In Politico Op-Ed
|Op Eds, Press Releases |Ethics & Accountabilityby Jackie HowellD21 Urges Congress to Support Independent Bipartisan Commission to Investigate 1/6 Attack
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